Quote by Woody Allen

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive m

Summary

This quote suggests that in order to effectively deter crime, capital punishment should be implemented before the crime occurs. The quote implies that executing potential offenders before they commit a crime would serve as a stronger deterrent than administering it as a consequence after the crime has been committed. The underlying assumption is that the fear of immediate and severe punishment would prevent individuals from engaging in criminal behavior in the first place.

Topics

Punishment

By Woody Allen

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

To find is the thing.

To find is the thing.

Truth Solitude Discovery

I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurr

I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Dreams Tfios Hazel

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Maturity

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Patience

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

Goals

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Julianna Baggott

Imagination

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve;

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

Production

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

Fathersday

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Selfishness

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the s

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Alone

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives a

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Gustave Courbet

Beauty

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Faith